The main characteristics of professionalism
The process of social development shows that human professional life is a historical category. Generally speaking, the so-called occupation refers to the social activities with specialized business and specific responsibilities that people have been engaged in for a long time because of the social division of labor and the division of labor within production, and take this as their main source of life. When people actively express themselves in a certain professional life, they form a certain professional spirit.
As an important aspect of social relations, occupation has a great influence on the spiritual life and tradition of social members. First, different occupational divisions have different responsibilities to society, which affects the establishment of people's life goals and the choice of life path, and even greatly affects people's outlook on life, values and careers. Secondly, people's professional activities and their understanding of professional interests and obligations play a decisive role in the formation of professional spirit. Once a person is engaged in a specific occupation, he directly bears certain professional responsibilities, which is closely related to the interests of the occupation he is engaged in. Their understanding of the overall interests of a profession promotes their cultural consciousness of specific social obligations. This kind of cultural consciousness can gradually form professional ethics and then sublimate into professional spirit. Third, the environment, content and methods of professional activities, as well as the interaction within the profession, strongly affect people's tastes, hobbies, personalities and styles. It contains specific spiritual accomplishment and sentiment, and embodies the particularity of practitioners in professional accomplishment and realm. To sum up, the so-called professionalism is closely related to people's professional activities and has its own professional characteristics.
Professionalism has the following general characteristics. First, in content, professionalism always clearly expresses the fundamental interests of the profession, as well as the spiritual requirements of professional responsibility and professional behavior. In other words, professionalism generally does not reflect the requirements of social spirit, but focuses on reflecting the special interests and requirements of the profession; It is not produced in general social practice, but formed on the basis of specific professional practice. It is clearly manifested in the unique spiritual tradition of a profession and the specific psychology and quality of practitioners. Professional quality is often passed down from generation to generation. Secondly, in terms of expression, professionalism is more specific, flexible and diverse. The spiritual requirements of various occupations for employees always start from the contents and ways of their activities and communication, and adapt to the objective environment and specific conditions of their professional activities. Therefore, it not only puts forward the principle requirements, but also strives to be specific and operable, such as enterprise spirit and professional oath. Third, in the scope of adjustment, professionalization mainly adjusts the relationship between two aspects, one is the internal relationship of people in the same occupation, and the other is the relationship between them and the objects they contact. Historically, in order to safeguard their own interests, professional reputation and professional dignity, all kinds of professional groups should not only strive to formulate and consolidate the norms embodying professional spirit, so as to adjust the internal relations of their professional groups, but also pay attention to meeting the requirements of all sectors of society in facing their occupations and adjusting the relations between their occupations and all sectors of society. Fourthly, on the one hand, professionalism makes the principle of social spirit "professional"; On the other hand, it "matures" the individual spirit. The relationship between professionalism and social spirit is particularity and generality, individuality and * * *. Any form of professionalism reflects the requirements of social spirit to varying degrees. Similarly, social spirit is largely expressed through specific professionalism. Social spirit lies in professionalism, which embodies or contains social spirit. The combination of professionalism and professional life has a strong stability and continuity, forming a guiding professional psychology and professional habits, greatly improving the conduct of practitioners in school and family life, and affecting the mental outlook of the subject.
In addition, socialist professionalism has three important characteristics. First, the socialist professionalism is an integral part of the socialist spiritual system. People's social life is divided into three major areas, namely family life, professional life and public life. Socialist professionalism is a special requirement of socialist spirit in the professional field. Second, the content of socialist professionalism is people-oriented. Socialist society has eliminated the relationship between exploitation and exploitation among people, and fundamentally made professional interests consistent with social interests and the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people. Various occupations have become an integral part of the socialist cause. Therefore, all walks of life can form the same spiritual requirement, that is, serving the people. The people's nature of socialist professionalism constitutes the essential feature that distinguishes it from previous professionalism, which makes it play an unprecedented important role in adjusting the relationship between people. Third, the formation and development of socialist professionalism is indoctrination. The professionalism of socialist society is based on the socialist economy with the public ownership economy as the main body. Unlike the old professional spirit, its main content can be formed spontaneously; It was established under the education of Marxism and through the efforts of conscious socialist professional members. When talking about cultivating workers' socialist consciousness, Lenin pointed out: "Workers can't have the consciousness of social democracy. This awareness can only be instilled from the outside. " (Selected Works of Lenin, vol./kloc-0, p. 267) Therefore, it is very important to strengthen the education of Theory of Three Represents and the Party's line, principles and policies, so that they can clearly understand the nature and characteristics of the socialist profession and understand their position and responsibilities in the socialist society.